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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:1407-1408. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.045
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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Gilbert H.L. Tang, MD, MSa, Stephen Fremes, MDb

a Division of Cardiac Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
b Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave; Rm H-410, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada

(Email: gilbert.tang@utoronto.ca; stephen.fremes@sunnybrook.ca).

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Nardi and colleagues [1] reported the 10-year outcomes on 302 consecutive patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, defined as a LV ejection fraction (LVEF) of 0.35 or less, who underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This is one of the first studies that has up to a 15-year longitudinal examination on 98% of its patients. In addition, long-term echocardiographic data were used to objectively assess the improvement in cardiac function in these patients. The authors are to be congratulated on their efforts of a comprehensive long-term follow-up.

The operative mortality of 5.3% in this patient group was respectable among other contemporary series. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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